Orthodoxia 2036

Orthodoxia 2036 is a complex and challenging Novel about the political upheaval of Fascism in a 21st Century setting. (2036 - an election year - refers to the culminating year in the Novel). The Nation of Orthodoxia was a modern, Western Nation of awesome power, riches and prestige, until the the Executive function is captured by a Cult of Personality surrounding the Nation’s 47th 'Chancellor' (who was also its 45th Chief Executive). The Chancellor, immediately upon taking office, set out to destroy ythe Nation that emerged from The Enlightenment in 1789. The story progresses through the narrative of a Citizen.who, against his wishes, puts himself at war with the Great Leviathan,Orthodoxia 2036 rewards erudition and, even more so, intellectual curiosity: a tale held together by IDEAS from the scientific to the metaphysical; from metaphorical to philosophical explorations of the nature of the State and the moment of justification for insurrection, the Nature of Time and of Death, and so on. The Novel weaves discussions of Philosophy, History, Science, Symbolic Logic, Theology and Mathematics. Orthodoxia addresses the most sophisticated and important intellectual breakthroughs, from Martin Luther’s October 31, 1517 'publication' of his Ninety-Five Theses, and the 1637 publication of A Discourse on Method by Rene Discartes, to the rigidly analytic logic of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s 1921 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; and beyond to the 20th/21st Century developments of Quantum Mechanics and Modern Cosmological Paradigms.Orthodoxia 2036 was over 15 years in the making as the author tried to stay one step ahead of real-world politics that ultimately coalesced in the form of MAGA-hat-wearing-Toadies seeking total authority over every person, government and private commercial interests. The project emerged just as the Fascists entered the House.Orthodoxia 2036 is a highly original, fictional portrayal of that which is exploding before our eyes. In telling this tale the novel references and in places digresses to explore historical and philosophical themes with matters of Quantum Mechanics, Symbolic Logic (the novel opens with quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein). The cover, though, announces the actual gateway for the novel to have relevance. This consists of a quote from U.S. Grant that, 'Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.' And so it is.